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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 290, 14 December 1870, Page 2

Everybody's inventing defences in these times, and one genius I've heard of thinks we ought to knock down all our lighthouses, and take up our buoys, in case somebody should want to fcako 'us' up, and carry us away into Egypt. This good man doesn't seem to make allowance for the wants of pe.aee'ul ships, and mariners comiug this way. Perhaps he'd have 'em take bearings and trust to the same, like the Dutch sailor did that thought himself srJe to get buck into port all right, because at starting the brindled heifer on the hill bore east and by west half north with the Church Steeple, and he'd got the bearings. Of course you see the joke, the Dutchman was drowned, and didn't.— Peerybingk Papers.